James Barnett
Researcher, consultant, and PhD candidate studying conflict in Africa. Fieldwork fanatic, interdisciplinary inclinations, Nigeria-based and -focused.
Various affiliations, but all views my own.
@notalawyer.bsky.social
No longer in good standing with the New York State bar My newsletter: StringinaMaze.net
@mjgault.bsky.social
Nukes, weird tech, and conflict at @404media.co Host of angryplanetpod.com Tips: [email protected] // signal: 347 762-9212
@monicamarks.bsky.social
Prof of Middle East Politics at NYU Abu Dhabi. Tunisia, Turkey, Gulf. PhD St Antony's College, Oxford. Rhodes, Fulbright, Harvard WCFIA. 14 years writing on Tunisia. Religion & democracy. Tango & bizarre travel enthusiast. Perpetually craving Istanbul.
@joshchafetz.bsky.social
Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Law and Politics, Georgetown Law: https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/josh-chafetz/ Author, most recently, of _Congress's Constitution_: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0300248334/
@democracyprofdc.bsky.social
Professor at American University. Defender of democracy. Lover of decency. Seeker of truth. Author/co-editor of books on Nigeria, constitution-making, and the American national security state. Editorial boards: Governance, Journal of Modern African Studies
@kschake.bsky.social
Leads AEI’s foreign and defense team, author of Safe Passage, contributing writer at The Atlantic. Californian. https://www.aei.org/profile/kori-schake/
@erschm.bsky.social
@jdevermont.bsky.social
Operating Partner, Kupanda Capital | Board Member, Fraym | Senior Advisor, CSIS Africa Program | Former NSC Senior Director for African Affairs | Former National Intelligence Officer for Africa | Personal Account
@cthomasjamh.bsky.social
Professor, African Military Historian, Co-Editor of the Journal of African Military History. Opinions expressed are solely mine. My book, Ujamaa’s Army, is available now!! https://www.ohioswallow.com/9780821425596/ujamaas-army
@jacobtlevy.bsky.social
Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory, Chair of Political Science, Associate member of Philosophy, Coordinator of Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill. Senior Fellow, Niskanen Center.
@scottlincicome.bsky.social
@CatoInstitute Vice President (Econ/Trade), @DukeLaw adjunct, @TheDispatch newsletter-er. CH❤️RTS. You didn't read the article, did you?
@mhnagh.bsky.social
Conflict Scholar https://www.belfercenter.org/people/mikael-hiberg-naghizadeh
@reshetz.bsky.social
23, ukrainian-american Print FPV drones like money and we’re hyperinflating
@nataliatelepneva.bsky.social
History Lecturer at UniStrathclyde. USSR in Africa, Cold War, secret intelligence, Empire and decolonisation. Author ‘Cold War Liberation’ (UNC Press, 2022).
@jamescourtright08.bsky.social
Pastoralism, natural resource management and conflict in West Africa / Clingendael Research Associate / ex ICWA fellow & Gambia transitional justice / Kolda haa mayde
@stoddarded.bsky.social
@altuna.bsky.social
Mostly Islamism. North Africa & Sahel. Narratives and counternarratives. Senior Research Fellow at GWU Program on Extremism
@dlknowles.bsky.social
Midwest correspondent at The Economist, in Chicago. Before that, in London, Mumbai, Nairobi and DC. Buy my book: http://shorturl.at/BJOUV Reach me on Signal: dlknowles.12
@ufsahelresearch.bsky.social
The Sahel Research Group at the University of Florida. We study politics, religion, security, trade, literature and languages in the West African Sahel https://sahelresearch.africa.ufl.edu/
@bencasselman.bsky.social
Chief Economics Correspondent for The New York Times. Adjunct at CUNY Newmark. Ex: FiveThirtyEight, WSJ. He/him. Email: [email protected] Signal: @bencasselman.96 📸: Earl Wilson/NYT
@profpaulpoast.bsky.social
International Relations and Foreign Policy. UChicago Prof. Chicago Council Fellow. WPReview Columnist. Still on Twitter/X, but now here too. https://www.paulpoast.com/
@natesibley.bsky.social
Fellow, Hudson Institute Director, Kleptocracy Initiative AML/CFT, sanctions, national security 🇺🇸🇬🇧
@catherinegegout.bsky.social
Researching European foreign policy and the global South. PhD in Politics and International Relations, EUI, Firenze. Author of: Why Europe Intervenes in Africa (Hurst 2017, OUP 2018); European Foreign and Security Policy (University of Toronto Press 2010).
@johnalechner.bsky.social
Writer, journalist, amateur linguist. DEATH IS OUR BUSINESS out with Bloomsbury March 2025. BEGINNER’S CHECHEN out with Hippocrene https://www.johnlechnerauthor.com/
@jeromed.bsky.social
Senior analyst on Jihad and Modern Conflict at International Crisis Group (ICG). Associate at Graduate Institute Geneva. Interested in armed groups. Books on Jihad in Egypt and Syria (openaccess). Forthcoming book on HTS
@zammagazine.bsky.social
The best of investigative journalism & art from Africa & beyond. We serve as a platform to introduce the work of African creatives and journalists to international audiences and build international alliances and solidarity. https://www.zammagazine.com/
@pseabra.bsky.social
Deputy Director at @cei-iscte.bsky.social • Assistant Professor at Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon • Rising powers, international security, Africa & the Atlantic
@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
International Relations prof at U. Illinois. Editor of Arc Digital. Author “Drones and Terrorism.” Politics, national security, and occasional nerdery.
@menastream.bsky.social
@p-vanostaeyen.bsky.social
Historian & Arabist Independent analyst on Jihadism, History, Arabic & Islamic Studies Publications available via https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6691-1988
@judithverweijen.bsky.social
Assistant professor at Utrecht University. Researching militarization, resource conflict & violence at the intersection of conflict studies, political ecology & geography. Focus on eastern DRC.
@ethuin.bsky.social
Researcher, writer, scholar and investigator. Recovering academic and UN expert. Hiphop and cooking aficionado. Kujenga amani lazima kuelewa vita.
@ulflaessing.bsky.social
Head of Sahel Programme at Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation in Bamako; previously 13 years for Reuters in Mideast/Africa; Author of Understanding Libya Since Gaddafi; personal account
@bubaimrana.bsky.social
PhD Research Fellow, University of Oslo | USIP Fellow | University of Edinburgh Alum. Nigeria, social resilience, civilian agency, conflict, & local peace.
@lowcausse34.bsky.social
Journaliste honoraire Commis boulanger Lodévois Larzac et au delà Promo 84 @IJBAOfficiel
@cjcmichel.bsky.social
Dictators are a cowardly and superstitious lot. | Head of Combating Kleptocracy Program at Human Rights Foundation | Author of AMERICAN KLEPTOCRACY and FOREIGN AGENTS | Posts in personal capacity
@grace-ellis.bsky.social
researching governance & security in West Africa @Clingendael | previously advisor @HiiL | views my own
@yair-rosenberg.bsky.social
Staff writer, The Atlantic. Teller of stories, troller of Nazis. Newsletter: theatlantic.com/newsletters/sign-up/deep-shtetl/ Music: bit.ly/azyashir
@zakeriyeaxmed.bsky.social
Freelance journalist covering #security & #politics in Somalia and the East Africa region. My portfolio: https://muckrack.com/zakeriyeaxmed
@harunmaruf.bsky.social
VOA journalist, writer, #Arsenal fan, community-level soccer player
@thecontinent.org
The Continent is an award-winning weekly newspaper produced by African journalists, photographers, illustrators and editors. Free on 👇 📱WhatsApp: bit.ly/4b2gpfI 💬 Signal: bit.ly/TCSignal 📲 Telegram: t.me/continentnews ✉️ Email: [email protected]
@rchason.bsky.social
@washingtonpost.com West Africa bureau chief, based in 🇸🇳 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rchasonwp
@donmoyn.bsky.social
Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan. Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy. Free newsletter, Can We Still Govern?: https://donmoynihan.substack.com
@armedgroups.bsky.social
Research. Dialogue. Advice. https://www.armedgroupscentre.org/